Word: bullneck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor-league record is formidable: in 1956, for example, he batted .360, hit 55 home runs, and knocked in 164 runs for Los Angeles, then in the Pacific Coast League. Such minor-league larruping at one time placed a $200,000 price tag around Stout Steve's bullneck, had won him four major-league tries before this year's with the Tigers. Each time he came up with personal hopes equaled only by those of his bosses; each time, sooner or later, he went back down. The old sad pattern seems about to be repeated...
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